Anyone familiar with the odd scabbard right now on the US Ebay as item 220942672265? It looks like a MH '76 bayonet from the pictures, although I get a '53 Enfield feeling as well. The photos aren't particularly good, but the scabbard looks a bit like one for a French Lebel. I just can't figure how one can cram any British socket bayonet that I know of into a Lebel bayonet scabbard. Am I missing something here? Neil?

And the ammunition box on at this very moment is noteworthy for it's creative description-- it's an "original reproduction". Jeezum, I love Ebay and it caveat emptor anarchy!

Anyone want to take a shot at item #400271838961. What are they?

Neil Aspinshaw

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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:39 pm

Its not British, more like a US Springfield bayonet, Proof marls looks like Liege, but its hard to tell

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Re: Martini bayonet offering- scabbard?

Kiwi Sapper

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Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 8:41 pm

Sawubona wrote:

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Anyone want to take a shot at item #400271838961. What are they?

_________________It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

Sawubona

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:17 pm

Ahhh, the Book of Turner, Chapter 83/ Verse 2 . That was my first thought as well, Kiwi, but the shape of the '82 pouch appears to be a bit too "boxy" to be the same as that sold. It seems to me to be a bit more like the first pattern pouch for the '88 Slade Wallace kit-- the one issued for just one year or so to carry Martini-Henry ammo (Turner Page 87 #7). No internal partition though. Curiouser and curiouser...

I'll have to dig out a couple of bayonets, Neil, and see if a Springfield fits in Label scabbard just for yucks.

Kiwi Sapper

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:11 pm

Gutted...........The case that is. not me
I did consider that beastie but without a rear view and those long fold over flaps................
As they say, just a stab in the dark.

_________________It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

Sawubona

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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:51 pm

I'm thinking you're correct about the "gutted", so now I feel sorry that I didn't bid on it. Gutted or not, a vintage "pair" (they may not have been a pair if they're '88's since the left and right pouch were unmatched that year) of ammo pouches for $45 is a reasonable price even without the frog. If you snooze you lose!

Re: Martini bayonet offering- scabbard?

oldcontemtible

Joined: 26 Jun 2008

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Location: Fortress Antwerp, Belgium

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:56 am

Sawubona wrote:

Anyone familiar with the odd scabbard right now on the US Ebay as item 220942672265? It looks like a MH '76 bayonet from the pictures, although I get a '53 Enfield feeling as well. The photos aren't particularly good, but the scabbard looks a bit like one for a French Lebel. I just can't figure how one can cram any British socket bayonet that I know of into a Lebel bayonet scabbard. Am I missing something here? Neil?

And the ammunition box on at this very moment is noteworthy for it's creative description-- it's an "original reproduction". Jeezum, I love Ebay and it caveat emptor anarchy!